Laurent Jean Francois Truguet

Laurent Jean Francois Truguet (10 January 1752-26 December 1839) was a French admiral.

Biography
He joined the French navy at the age of thirteen and had served in eight campaigns by July 1778, when the French government declared war on Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War. Truguet served in Francois Joseph Paul De Grasse's French fleet during the Battle of the Chesapeake Bay, Battle of St. Kitts, and the Battle of the Saintes before returning home in 1785.

In 1792 he was made a Rear Admiral by the First French Republic and served in the bombardment of southern France, such as Nice, Villefranche, and Oneglia, and he participated in the conquest of Sardinia. In 1794 he built a college for Africans as well as whites and agreed with the abolition of slavery, only for it to be closed in 1802.

In 1809 he was made the commander of the Kingdom of Holland's naval forces and fought against the navy of Great Britain again, but he was defeated by English fireships at the Ile d'Aix. After the Hundred Days he was made the commander of the fleet at Brest by the Bourbon government, defending the storehouses from the Coalition occupation forces, and in 1819 he became a peer.